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Andrew and his team once again
ventured out at 4am, against unfavourable weather warnings, erecting 280m of
nets before 6am when the first people started to arrive. He drew an excellent
crowd of 18 people which included a contingent all the way from Pennington
Conservancy, Scottburgh.

His “special” of the day was a
Knysna Warbler about which he had this to say. "So one of today's highlights at the
ringing was this recapture of a Knysna Warbler that was ringed by a good friend
of mine Johan Snyman in the same forest on 21/09/2014, almost 2 years ago, this
is a bird that was thought to be extinct from KZN until some were discovered in
Mbumbazi Nature Reserve near Paddock. This is the third location where I have
caught and ringed them on the South Coast, all in indigenous forest patches on
sugar cane farms. To confirm the identity of this bird today we played the call
from the Roberts Multimedia and the response from the bird was immediate".

Other specials were a male African
Goshawk recapture and an adult male Green Twinspot, named Andrew tells us,
because each feather has a double spot.

In total 33 birds were caught consisting
of 10 recaptures and 23 new birds.

Birds ringed:

1 Tambourine Dove

1 Lemon Dove

2 Chorister Robin-Chat

4 Red-Capped Robin-Chat

3 Brown Scrub-Robin

1 Greenbacked Cameroptera

5 Olive Sunbird

1 Collared Sunbird

5 Green Twinspot (4 imm and 1 ad male)

Recaptures were all from 2014 or
2015 so nothing much in longevity for them, the 2 best are the Goshawk and
Warbler

2 Brown Scrub-Robin

1 Chorister Robin-Chat, interesting as they are a
winter visitor so they come back to the same forest

1 Squaretailed Drongo

2 Red-Capped Robin-Chat

1 Knysna Warbler, one of only 18 birds ever ringed and
the 4th ever recaptured, ringed in Sept 2014 at the same spot